The emotions that many people feel during quarantine could lessen interest in sex. But for some, they may prompt a spike in desire. Here's why.
Typically speaking, research suggests that feeling stressed can have a negative impact on our sexual desire. When we're stressed, we're typically distracted, preoccupied, worried, exhausted. Not sexy feelings. The negative relationship between stress and desire has been documented among women as one of the main contributing factors for not being in the mood for sex, and research suggests that stress can negatively impact men’s sexual desire as well.
The authors' results found a positive association between the stressful event and women's reported desire for her partner. This relationship was particularly notable among women who experienced high levels of Intrusions and Hyper-arousal reactions after a stressful event. This suggests that during, or shortly after, a stressful life event some of us may experience higher levels of sexual interest.
However, there are also many of us who do not meet the criterion for clinical depression but may experience depressed mood, particularly in reaction to the social climate we currently find ourselves in. So what does the research have to say about non-clinical depressive moods? Well, for the most part, the pattern seems to hold. For example, in one study of 198 couples, researchers measured depressed mood and asked various questions to tap into participants' sexual functioning.
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